Vericel VCEL Institutional Ownership

Updated Oct 11, 2026

Vericel Corp (NASDAQ:VCEL) was reported as a holding by 316 institutional investors in 13F filings for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

• Total holdings of VCEL shares rose 0.35% from Q1 2026, and the holder count rose 19.25% from Q2 2025.
• Looking at the 316 holders of VCEL individually, 186 added to their positions, 98 reduced their stakes and 32 left their positions unchanged.
• Combined, institutional investors held 55.23Mn shares of VCEL as of Q2 2026, up 194.66K from the prior quarter and up 979.45K from a year earlier.
• As of June 30, 2026, the biggest holder of Vericel was BlackRock, Inc. with 8.09Mn shares.
• The largest position increases in VCEL for Q2 2026 were by Congress Asset Management Co (+1.41Mn shares), Next Century Growth Investors LLC (+459.81K shares), Nuveen, LLC (+424.06K shares), Balyasny Asset Management L.P. (+336.55K shares) and BlackRock, Inc. (+326.88K shares).
• The biggest cuts to VCEL positions during Q2 2026 came from Soleus Capital Management, L.P. (-1.09Mn shares), SG Capital Management LLC (-638.03K shares), Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC (-521.36K shares), Federated Hermes, Inc. (-395.9K shares) and Divisadero Street Capital Management, LP (-385.84K shares).
• Per Business Quant, the top 10 investors in VCEL for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 were BlackRock, Inc. (8.09Mn shares), State Street Corp (3.29Mn shares), Congress Asset Management Co (2.92Mn shares), Vanguard Capital Management LLC (2.26Mn shares), Conestoga Capital Advisors, LLC (2.08Mn shares), William Blair Investment Management, LLC (1.99Mn shares), BNP Paribas Asset Management Holding S.A. (1.64Mn shares), GW&K Investment Management, LLC (1.55Mn shares), Soleus Capital Management, L.P. (1.46Mn shares) and Geode Capital Management, LLC (1.34Mn shares).